Template:1 Key TAS History

2019-04-06T18:47:44Z

Randomno: Date fix

<includeonly>| Sep 29, 2016
| 4:21.67<ref>[http://youtu.be/j5j6l9ULxmI "N64 Super Mario 64 "1 Key" in 4:21.67" by sonicpacker]</ref>
| -
| Tyler Kehne, MKDasher, sonicpacker, Snark, SilentSlayers, Gaehne D, Eru, and ToT
| Original Run
|-
| Oct 27, 2016
| 4:21.40<ref>[https://youtu.be/LVow3S13US0 "N64 Super Mario 64 "1 Key" in 4:21.40" by sonicpacker]</ref>
| 8
| Plush
| Faster VCutM Entry<ref>[https://youtu.be/px-Oc1Rm2DY "-3f VCutM Entry (Yes, this again)" by Plush]</ref>
|-
| Nov 13, 2016
| 4:21.30<ref>[https://youtu.be/TkOkJvLKxUY "N64 Super Mario 64 "1 Key" in 4:21.30" by sonicpacker]</ref>
| 3
| sm64expert
| Faster VCutM Entry
|-
| Jul 16, 2017
| 4:21.23<ref>[https://youtu.be/vwHzcH-yTEc "(TAS) N64 Super Mario 64 "1 Key" in 4:21.23" by Plush]</ref>
| 2
| Plush
| Faster kick/movement to BitFS<ref>[https://youtu.be/edo-Bfbv1ac "SM64 (TAS) - Another 1 Key DDD Pre-BLJ 1f Improvement" by Plush]</ref>
|-
| Jul 4, 2018
| 4:21.17{{refn|group=note|Hex edited by jongyon; never officially published. Timed as slower on console due to inclusion of the "dab" after collection of BitFS Key, as well as poor camera angles on BitFS, both of which incur lag on console.<ref>[https://youtu.be/dOjJT3UjuDw "(TAS) N64 Super Mario 64 "1 Key" in 4:21.17"]</ref>}}
| 2
| Plush
| Slidekick at the beginning of both BitFS<ref>[https://youtu.be/MaRoWuoVLNU "SM64 (TAS) - Bowser in the Fire Sea (17"53)" by Plush]</ref> and BitS<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lABNNPFs3SI "SM64 (TAS) - Bowser in the Sky (27"83)" by Plush]</ref>
|-
| Oct 29, 2018
| 4:21.13{{refn|group=note|name=console|Timed at 4:21.04 on console.<ref name="contime">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6TBsIsraI "Super Mario 64 "1 key TAS" in 4'21"04*" by dar gos]</ref>}}
| 1
| Superdavo0001 & dar gos
| BitFS improvement through optimization of quarter-frame movement, as well as lag reduction through better camera angles<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1sxN1lSLI "(TAS) Bowser In The Fire Sea In 17"50 (No Reds) By Superdavo0001 & dar gos" by Superdavo0001]</ref>
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A Button Challenge

2019-04-06T18:39:01Z

Randomno: I don't have a better ref than this right now but a Discord message is a stupid ref

{{A Button Challenge infobox}}
The '''A Button Challenge''', '''ABC''' for short, is a [[challenge]] in which the number of presses of the [[A button]] is minimized, whether on a per-mission or a per-file basis. Because the A button makes Mario jump, great creativity and precision are required to progress in the game without using this "vital" function. The ABC is often connected to the discoveries of new glitches and techniques that can be used more generally throughout the game. Much of the material on the [https://www.youtube.com/user/pannenkoek2012 pannenkoek2012] and [https://www.youtube.com/user/pannenkeok2012 UncommentatedPannen] channels is related to the A Button Challenge, with only 20 remaining A presses (15 unique A presses) left to optimize.<ref>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wVD60DYcPPjWmfObqwV-1Kb0ic478dsL9znCMqM2X4M/edit?usp=sharing</ref>

== History ==
Although much of the progress in the ABC has been made since 2013, the ABC existed for over a decade earlier. Pieces of what would become the ABC were present in different terms, as early as 2001 on Walton Dell's site on multiple level pages.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020614010118/http://www.wdell.com/videogames/sm64/course01/</ref> Curtis Bright, who runs sm64.com, was keeping track of ABC at least as early as December of 2006.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20061209073313/http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cbright/sm64/a-presses.html</ref> Thiago Trujillo had what is the earliest, nearly complete count for the game (that we have access to) with a total count of about 263 presses.<ref>http://www.oocities.org/thiagotrujillo/abut.html</ref> (This list is missing all navigation presses, two of the [[DDD]] stars, three of the [[TTC]] stars, one star in [[RR]], and [[BitS]].)

Pannenkoek's first ABC video was for 5 Itty Bitty Secrets, and was released in August 2013.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy7XDStV5WE</ref> The count at this point was about 212 presses, although this number dropped fairly quickly. Within the first 4 months, the count had fallen nearly 100 presses, and was down to 118. Over the next five years, many different people have worked on removing as many counts as possible, and the number has dropped to only 20 A presses in a 120 star run (as well as 0 in any% on WiiVC).

== A Presses Left ==
A '''unique A press''' refers to a single circumstance under which the A button must be pressed during a run. This circumstance may occur multiple times, leading to multiple A presses; if a workaround is found for the unique A press, all of those individual A presses may be saved.

For example, if entering a course requires an A press, the case of entering the course is a unique A press, even if said course must be visited multiple times over the course of a run.

Below is a table of unique A presses in the A Button Challenge.

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 50%;"
|-
! scope="col"|A Press #
! scope="col"|Multiplicity
! scope="col"|Stage
! scope="col"|Purpose
|-
|#1
|1
|JRB
|To collect the chest star
|-
|#2
|1
|LLL
|To get to the Elevator Tour star platform
|-
|#3
|2
|SSL
|To get out of the pyramid elevator
|-
|#4
|1
|THI
|To [[Double Jump|double jump]] to a higher platform and collect [[Red Coin|red coin]]s
|-
|#5
|1
|THI
|To dive to the upper platform and grab the high red coin
|-
|#6
|3
|TTC
|To get out of the treadmill grinding spot
|-
|#7
|1
|TTC
|To get out of the pendulum box pedro spot with vertical speed
|-
|#8
|1
|PSS
|To collect the star
|-
|#9
|1
|WMotR
|To shoot out of the cannon after talking to the Bob-omb Buddy to reach the next cannon
|-
|#10
|1
|WMotR
|To shoot out of the second cannon, fly around, and collect the eight red coins
|-
|#11
|1
|BitFS
|To get past the pole (saved on [[Wii VC]])
|-
|#12
|4
|Castle
|To enter TTC (6 except on [[Super Mario 64#Japanese|JP N64]])
|-
|#13
|1
|Castle
|To go to RR
|-
|#14
|1
|Castle
|To go to WMotR
|}

Additionally, some levels require the A button to be held for the level, but not started on that specific star necessarily. These presses can be tied to earlier presses to lower counts in longer runs.

Below is a table of all levels that require half an A-Press.
{|class="wikitable sortable" border="0" cellspacing="1" style="width: 50%;"
|-
! scope="col"|Half A Press #
! scope="col"|Multiplicity
! scope="col"|Stage
! scope="col"|Purpose
|-
|#1
|1
|HMC
|To do kicks on the elevator
|-
|#2
|1
|DDD
|To clone the whirlpool and poles
|-
|#3
|1
|DDD
|To clone coin spawners for 100 coins
|}

== References ==
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Ukikipedia - User contributions [en]

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A Button Challenge